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• South Africa doesn’t have enough coal for power plants beyond 2016

  28 May 2015

  South Africa’s state power utility Eskom doesn’t not have enough coal in stock to meet... . ...Read More

• Glencore slips on weak thermal coal prospects

  28 May 2015

  Glencore has slipped back after Morgan Stanley pointed to poor prospects for its thermal coal busi... . ...Read More

• Japan Coal Revival Ducks Scrutiny With Small Plants, Critics Say

  28 May 2015

  As Japan burns more coal following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, power producers are able to duc... . ...Read More

• Deal to phase out rich-world coal export subsidies elusive

  28 May 2015

  The world's richest nations are unlikely to reach a deal to phase out subsidies for coal expor... . ...Read More

• The war on coal is real, and one side is clearly winning

  28 May 2015

  The coal industry is in trouble. In an in-depth new report from Politico, one of the coal indust... . ...Read More

• What to do with all these dead coal-fired power plants?

  28 May 2015

  About 13 gigawatts worth of coal-fired power plants are closing this year to comply with the U.S. ... . ...Read More

• Inside the war on coal

  28 May 2015

  The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious pollu... . ...Read More

• Coal linkage auction: Spectrum-like auctioning likely for unregulated sector

  27 May 2015

  SBI Caps, in a report, which would be the basis for a policy paper on mechanism for granting coal ... . ...Read More

• HC calls Coal India’s reason for cancelling e-auction of coal ‘absurd’

  27 May 2015

  Citing lack of requisite permissions to operate the two mines in Chhatisgarh even after a month of... . ...Read More

• House committee suggests scientific mining of coal

  27 May 2015

  The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has expressed the view that coal mining needs... . ...Read More

• Chinese Firm Wins Contract to Explore Coal in East Kenya

  27 May 2015

  Kenya has awarded a consortium led by a Chinese firm a concession deal to develop two coal blocks ... . ...Read More

• Atlantic Coal unveils 37% increase in reserve at Stockton

  27 May 2015

  A new reserve estimate for the Stockton mine in Pennsylvania has increased the amount of coal avai... . ...Read More

• MGen, partners seek syndicated bank loan for two coal projects in the Philippines

  27 May 2015

  MERALCO PowerGen Corp. (MGen) and its partners plan to raise close to P100 billion to fund two pow... . ...Read More

• China April coal imports from Australia fall 17.7 per cent on year

  27 May 2015

  China imported 6.60 million tonnes of coal from top supplier Australia in April, down 17.7 per cen... . ...Read More

• US coal shares tumble to record lows after job cuts, restructuring speculation

  27 May 2015

  US coal stocks were among the biggest losers in New York on Tuesday after the protracted slump in ... . ...Read More